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The city council for a large city wanted to know what proportion of the residents thought fitness classes should be available to everyone. The research department offered to cooperate in conducting a survey, and a simple random sample of 500 voters was selected from all the registered voters in the city. A survey form was sent by mail to these 500 voters.
In this case, the sampling frame is:
ANSWER:
all the residents on the list of registered voters.
The sampling frame is the list of potential individuals from which the sample gets selected. In this case, that list is restricted to residents who registered to vote. This is an example in which the sampling frame does not match the population about which the city council wants information.